West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-01-20
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's SIN.
DAY SERMON.
suDJcct' distribution of Rewards -

that In the Coliseum at Rome where
prosecutors usei 10 let out the half->tarved
Iohs 70 eat up Christians, there is now
planted the figure Of n cross And rejoice
70 know that the upright piece Of wood
halled 70 transverse piece has become the
syhool not moro OF suffering than OF VIC
tory' lt Is OF Christ the COnqueror that my
text speaks As a kingly warrior HAVING
Suodued an empire, might divide the palaces,
ahu mansions, and cities, and valleys and
mountains among his officers, 50 Christ is
going 10 divide up all the earth and all the
heavens, among his people, and Won and
VIII nave TO take our share IL we are strong
IN Iath and strong in our Christian loyalty
TOT my text declares IL: "He shall divide the
spoil with the strongn
The capture of this round nlnnet for Cbrist
Il not 50 much of n Job as YOU mi INT ftnap-ine
When the church takes OF its coat an rolls
up Us sleeves Tor the work, a il viii There
are sixteen hundred millions of people now
IN the world, and four hundred ami 6Ttv Nil
mons are CHRISTIANS. Subtra Z four hundred
ana htty millions who are Christians from
lhe sixteen hundred millions, and there arc
steven hundred and fifty millions left. Di.
Nlue the eleven hundred and fifty millions
VINO are not Christians bv the four hundred
ana NIFTY mi lions who areC Christians and won
WlIl hnd that We shall have TO average Less
tGs'iI tuIeo Souls each brought by us into the
slnguom Of God 70 have the whole world re-
ueeIned Certainly with the church RISING,
up 70 lts lull duty no Christian will be Willing
70 orlhg less than three souls into the king.
G oi -. IN @9d. l hope and pray, Almighty
uod' that may bring ten thousand L know
eVahgelSts who have already brought so 900
each FOR the kingdom OF God Tbore
are @OO,oOO people whose one and only
anu absorbing business in the world
Is 70 save souls When Won takn
these things into consideration and that
the Christian Will have to average the brine
ing OF only three souls each into the Kingdom
80, - our LoIu' an lnpoS'ibility vanishes from
tniS omnipoteut crusade. WHY L know n
Saooath-school teacher who la; for many
years been engaged in training tho vouno
anu she has had different ella .ses. and they
a7eu To a class, aud they were ali con-
NeIUed, ana times Z are - rs near rs
4 can calculate. SO that she brought her
mo The Kingdom of God and had 80 10
spare. My grandmother prayed her chill
49," INTO ihe Kingdom of Christ. AMI
ne: grandchildren, and I hope ali her
great grandchildren, for God Remembers
prayer seventy-tive years old rs though IN
were only minute old, and so she broIIrbt
ner thISe into tho Kingdom of God aud had
more imam one hundred TO spare Besides
that through the telephone and the tele.
graph this whole world within a few wears
VIII be brought within compass in ten min
nIes Beside that, omnipotence, omnipresence
ana omnlscence are presiding in this natter
Of the worlds belterment and tbat talse,
the question OF the worlds salvation ont
OF the lmpoSsibilities into the moss ibilities
anu then out OF tho possibilities into the
probabilities, and then out of the probahili.
lies into the Certainties The building Of tba
Union Pa-ihc Railroad from ocean To ocean
was a greater undertaking than the yirdIinT
Oh the earth with the Gospel, for the one en-
teIIrEe depended upon the human arm XvbiIa
the other depends upon Almightin- s.
DO really mean all the earth will surran-
Ter 70 christ! Yes. How about tn unin-
vltlng, portions' win Greenland be- evan
gelizedi Tho possibility is that after a fayv
uored hundred brave lives are dashed ONT
lmong the icebergs, that great refrigerator.
the folar region, will be given up T. tho wal
rus and bear, and that the inhabitaut; will
come down by invitation into tolerable cli-
mates, or those climates may soften. and as
Y has been positively demonstrated that the
arctic region was once blooming garden
and fruitful field, those re 1ions may change
.l!Lnate ana again be blooming garden aud
fruitful held. 1t IS proved beyond contro-
yersy by German and American scientists.
shAt the Arctic regions were the first portions
ot this world inhabitable; the world hot
beyond human endurance, those regions
enough for human foot and human
Jung lt was positively proved that the Arc
&c region was tropical climate Professor
heer, or Zurich. says the remains of flowers
nave oeen found IN the Arctic, showing il
was like Mexico for climate. AMI liz is foTnd
mat the Arctic was the mother region from
which all the flowers descended Professor
wallace says the remains OF all styles of ami
NAL life are found in The Arctic, including
those animals that can live only in warm
climates. Now, that Arctic regfon which
mas Teen demonstrated by fora and fauna
and geologi al argument to have been as full
of vegetation and life as our Florida. NAV be
turned back TO It's original bloom and glory.
or 10 will be shut up as museum OF CRYSTALS
Tor curiosity seekers once In while 10 visit
But Arctic and Antarctic in some shape will
oelong 70 the RedeemeT's realm
What about other unpro iuctive or repul-
ave regions All the deserts will be irri-
Eoted, the waters will be forced nm To tho
reas American desert between re and the
racine by machinery now known or vet to
% invented, and, as Great Salt AXE CITY
mas no rain and could not raise an apDle or n
oushel OF wheat in a hundred years without
Artificial help, but is now through such means
one great garden 80 all the uuproductivc
iaTts OF all the continent viii be turned int.
harvest fields and orchards A half dozen
re Lesseps VIII furnish the world with ali
the canals needed and viii change the course
oi rivers and open new lakes aud the great
sahara Desert will b. cut no int farms
WIN an astounding yield Of bushels to the
are The marsh viii he drained Of IT,
waters aud cured Of its malaria I saw tine
otner dag what was for many wears calleI
~ ~, bIlJish swamp OF Ohio, It's chief crop
.hiils ano ieyers, but now, by the tiles nut i'm
70 the ground tOcnrry Oh the surplus rn1ist.ire
transformed into the richest and healtbiest ~
regions The God who yya-tes ngtbfug
'nlhA' means that this world. from pole to
pole, has 20 come % perfection OF foliage
and fruitage For that reason he kasr. 81
unnihS through SPACE, though So many fires
are DlaHng down In its timbars and 20 many
mock terrors have tire tened % dash h -
pieces as soon as the earth Il, cymrIat..i
LhIlst viii divide 10 up am .nz the gs0T.
Ahe reason ne does not divide DO now Il. boo
,ausa ~ u.s. MT done a KIM father will mot
,l1iue the apple among his children until the
IFl5 s Ilpe. lu iulHIIueut %. tho New
le'tnament promise. "The meek shall in.
merit the earth. oni tho promise Of tho old
testament. lie hall divide the su1is with
we strong the wJrll viii be arr1rti .rrd y.
tfYee worthy ~ possess it
lb ls not 10 now. Iu this country. aaratIo
or holding feeling clothing. and the'tarI4g
we've hundred million pp1.I. ana whore
We nave only sixty million irhltiaut4 vva
nave TWO millions who cannot -.t I.rr.t
Mork, ana wit their f1mIi.s an agyre.a.
tion OF I'VE millions TINT are or ths ser1s'gf
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pofu0nmen- Many Df the millionaire 81
totes VII crack ~ pieces ou Tho Ii.Iratfru-
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Ipasos Jon of tle ua ses VINO uoH have au
insuH.riencv
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